Here are some of the things you need to know about the Super 300, 35-year-old HYLO Open 2023.

• Germany (1992) and Denmark (1996) are two nations to have done a sweep.
• Only Chinese Taipei have seeded players in every discipline this time.
• However, they are yet to produce winners outside the men’s singles and doubles.
• It’s been 10 years since Germans won the tournament. Mixed pair Michael Fuchs/Birgit Michels did so in 2013.
• Seeded local hopes this year are Yvonne Li (women’s singles) and Mark Lamsfuss/Marvin Seidel (men’s doubles).
• Chou Tien Chen is the sole male player to win three straight editions (2012-2014) this century.
• Seeded top, Chou will be HYLO Open’s most successful men’s singles player with a fourth title.
• Rehan Naufal Kusharjanto/Lisa Ayu Kusumawati are the only defending champions returning.
• If successful, the seventh seeds will become the first mixed pair since Michael Keck/Karen Stechmann in 1994 to retain their title.
• It’s the longest category not to see the holders defend their crown.
• Chou, Kusharjanto and Kusumawati are three of 17 former winners in the draw.
• Ng Ka Long Angus, Toma Junior Popov, Kirsty Gilmour, He Ji Ting, Ong Yew Sin/Teo Ee Yi, Zhang Shu Xian, Gabriela Stoeva/Stefani Stoeva, Marcus Ellis/Lauren Smith, Selena Piek, Mathias Christiansen/Alexandra Boje are the others.
• The Stoevas (2018, 2020) and Ellis (men’s doubles with Chris Langridge and mixed doubles with Smith in 2018) are multiple winners.
• He, Zhang and Piek are back alongside new partners. Chen Qing Chen in 2016 was the most recent to come back and triumph with a different player (Jia Yi Fan). She had combined with Zheng Si Wei to the mixed doubles title two years earlier.
• Piek, and former women’s doubles sidekick Eefje Muskens, are the last Dutch players to top the podium.
• This year, she is seeded fifth with Robin Tabeling in mixed doubles, where top seeds Thom Gicquel/Delphine Delrue hope to become France’s first ever doubles titlists.
• Meanwhile, Indonesia, who have never had a winning women’s pair, count on seeds Apriyani Rahayu/Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti (second) and Febriana Dwipuji Kusuma/Amallia Cahaya Pratiwi (fifth).
• On the other hand, through fourth seed Ng Tze Yong, Malaysia look to celebrate their maiden men’s singles champion.

Standout Stat: In the last 10 years, women’s singles winners have only come from Thailand, China, Japan and Scotland.